achillesheel
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Pronouncing the Masters' Names I am a lawyer. One routine difficulty for us is pronouncing the oddest names that happen to appear in cases that we argue about. With so many foreign (to an American) names in chess, I am curious how to pronounce some of them (and other chess terms as well). Examples:
Is it KAS-par-ov or kas-PAR-ov?
Is it NIM-zo-vich or NIM-zo-wich?
Is it pol-GAR or POL-gr?
Is it fee-un-CHETTO or fee-un-SHETTO or fee-un-KETO or something in-between?
I'm sure there are many others I haven't thought of here. But these occur to me.
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chessnovice
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... To my knowledge, it is the following:
kas-PAR-ov
NIM-zo-vich
pol-GAR
fee-un-CHETTO
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myway316
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3 out of 4 ain't bad,chessnovice. The last one is fee-un-KETTO.
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chessnovice
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... The tutorials in Chessmaster 9000 pronounce it fee-un-CHETTO, to my knowledge. Of course, it is an Italian word (for on the flank), and since I don't know a lick of Italian I can't say for sure. I figure the program wouldn't mess that up, though.
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honololou
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this may help… www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/pronounc.htm
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fmgaijin
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I think "nim-ZO-vitch" . . . for the same reason as kas-PA-rov, bot-VI-nik and gor-BA-chev:
Syllable stress "rules" vary from language to language.
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achillesheel
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Cool Link Honolulu Alekhine was a surprise to me too (al-uh-KEEN in my own little mind all this time).
And fmgaijin, I guess your post also would resolve my long-standing question whether it is Vladmir nuh-BOK-ov or NA-buh-kov (like the old Police song).
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finduriel
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alekhine I actually think that you pronounce Alekhine with a "ch" sound like in Scots "loch" instead of a "k" sound. Oh, and "Zwischenzug" is wrong. It should be TSWEE-shen-tsoog.
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